![Mass executions, torture and child soldiers: UN reports terrible war crimes in Iraq Mass executions, torture and child soldiers: UN reports terrible war crimes in Iraq](https://mtic.us/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/000_nic6340103.si_-310x168.jpg)
More than 5,000 Iraqis have died in the violence in the country so far this year, a large proportion of them women and children suffering gruesome deaths at the hands of ISIS extremists and over-zealous security forces, says a detailed new UN report.